Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PDT on July 16, 2015

Oakland gets anonymous $34 million gift (Visalia Times)
Modesto moves ahead with road diet (Modesto Bee)
Alameda gets $2 million grant for new park (Contra Costa Times)
The public health implications of taking Level of Service out of CEQA (Planetizen)
Driver cellphone use increasing in California (Sacramento Bee)
Judge to Uber: give up the data, or stop work in California and pay a big fine (LA Times)
There are no accidents (Gizmodo)
Three wins for bikes in US Senate transportation bill (League of American Bicyclists)
Chair of CA housing finance agency will step down amid controversy over evictions (East Bay Express)
Minneapolis eliminates minimum parking requirements for housing near transit (Vox)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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